by Alexis Murdock | Oct 23, 2024 | Animal Tales for Kids
Do you ever complain when your parents ask you to clean or do chores? If so, you are not the only one! Interestingly enough, a type of fish called a cichlid (Neolamprologus savoryi) faces that same challenge and can even face “fish punishment” at times....
by Liz DeProspo | Oct 23, 2024 | Animal Tales for Kids
Have you ever felt as though you could sleep through an entire day? Maybe you exhausted your energy during a soccer game or stayed up late watching a movie the night before. In three-spined stickleback fish, however, an abundance of afternoon naps might be caused by...
by Josh Greville | Oct 22, 2024 | Animal Tales for Kids, Anti-predator behavior
Being an animal in the wild must be really scary sometimes. Other creatures are always trying to chase you down and eat you! To survive for very long, a prey animal has to have some pretty good tricks up its sleeve. Some animals fight back, but others run...
by Josh Greville | Oct 22, 2024 | Urban ecology
As you probably know, humans make lots of pollution that can leak into nature and harm animals – fertilizers, salts, poisons, etc. These sorts of pollution have really nasty effects, but recently another type of pollution has been getting a lot of attention....
by Anne-Duncan Enright | Oct 22, 2024 | Anti-predator behavior
When we imagine an ant colony, we envision each ant doing their job, gathering food and resources to further grow their community. As the matriarch of the colony, ant queens are responsible for more than just giving birth to the entire colony – they must also...
